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- > > This one everyone has got. Maybe it could be used for something, like sprites or
- > > overlay graphics?
- >
- > On bitplanes it's easy. But on true colour it's more difficult to do
- > overlay with the blitter. This is beacuse the blitter overwrites
- > everything. I.e. it can't leave "holes".
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- Sounds like there isn't any way to use the blitter then.
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- > > > Keyboard and other processors:
- > > > Short answer: forget about it.
- > > > Longger answer: They are too slow and too sepcific to use for anything
- > > > apart from for what they were designed.
- > >
- > > Well... there is always the Yamaha soundchip...
- >
- > Yes, and how would you use it for anything apart from the things it was
- > designed for, i.e. Sound?
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- Nothing else. It was the sound I had in mind. :-)
- I was maybe a little unclear there as I was talking about the blitter, but it was
- the sound/music I talked about from the beginning.
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- //Magnus Kollberg
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